Alex Kotlowitz Quotes

Do you directly target the violence because it so discourages any kind of economic development? Or do you bring in jobs and rehab homes, knowing that with a sense of opportunity the violence will diminish?

Alex Kotlowitz

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• Do you directly target the violence because it so discourages any kind of economic development? Or do you bring in jobs and rehab homes, knowing that with a sense of opportunity the violence will diminish?

  

  Alex Kotlowitz
  • Violence
  • Development
  • Diminish